Anthony Guy Bennett (born June 1, 1969) is head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers basketball team since March 31, 2009. He is considered the best defensive coach in college basketball and as a coach who does not violate NCAA rules, according to a survey CBS Sports about the opposing coach. His mover-blocker attack is also touted as elite and efficient. The basketball style he taught has been compared to a bouncing constrictor who stifled an opponent, and his team was known for their unselfish gameplay, first defense philosophy, and tempo control.
Bennett is the first ACC coach to win 17 matches in a single season, one of three in ACC history to regain the 30-season win, and is an ACC Coach three times a year. His Cavaliers won the ACC Tournament in 2014 and in 2018, and won the regular season ACC titles in 2014, 2015, and 2018. Bennett holds the school record for a single season win in Virginia and shares a note at Washington State. He is the only three-time Henry Henry Award winner for this year's national coach (only John Wooden won more) and two other national honorary winners from Naismith and AP. Despite such recognition, he tends to distance media interviews and attention.
As a player, Bennett ranks first in NCAA's history for a career of three-point target accuracy, at 49.7%, peaking at 53.3% in 1990-91. He started for the USA Team in the 1991 Pan American Games, was awarded the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the nation's top player under six feet, and was named the All-American Academy of the Year as the nation's top basketball athlete. Bennett was designed by Charlotte Hornets in the 1992 NBA draft. Tony played three years for the Hornets and several others professionally in Australia and New Zealand, where he started training. His time there led him to recruit several players from Oceania to college basketball, including Aussie Aron Baynes who later won the NBA Championship ring with the San Antonio Spurs. Bennett played in Green Bay for his father Dick Bennett, who brought Wisconsin to the Final Four in 2000 using an earlier version of the packline defense seen today in Virginia.
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Biography and playing career
Higher Education
Bennett, a point guard, played for his father Dick Bennett at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (UWGB) after his high school career at Upper School and Stevens Point High School. While there, Bennetts leads Phoenix to the NCAA Tournament and two appearances at NIT. During his time there, Phoenix had a 87-34 record (.719) en route to Bennett, twice called the Player of the Year. He was awarded the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award awarded to the most famous senior under six feet and named the 1992 All-American GTE Academy this year. He also started to win a 1991 bronze medal for the Pan-American Games team led by Gene Keady. He completed his college career as a leader throughout the Mid-Continent Conference (2,285) and assisted (601), and still held the NCAA all-time leader position in 3-point goal goal accuracy.
Professional
Bennett was then selected in the 1992 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets. He spent three seasons (1992-1995) with the Hornets before a leg injury ended his NBA career. With eyes heading back to the NBA, Bennett left for New Zealand in 1996 to play for Viking North Harbor. The second year there, he became a player/coach. He completed his playing career as a two-time New Zealand NBL All-Star Five and two-time champion Keith Carr Trophy to become an Extraordinary Keeper in the league for two years. In early 1997, Bennett also had a short stint with the Sydney Kings of Australia National Basketball League.
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Train a career
Bennett wants to understand everything about basketball games to the point that, even as an NBA player, teammates feel he prefers learning and learning the game rather than participating in it. Bennett's teams, especially in Virginia, are known for their attacking attacks and stifling defenses, which feature his version of the famous "line of mind" defense strategy designed by his father. The package line is designed to clog the potential driving path to paint by forcing the ball handler to the center of the floor where more "help" is concentrated. It forces the opposing team to pass and shoot well, while limiting dribble and post play penetration.
New Zealand and Wisconsin
In 1998, Bennett stopped playing for North Harbor but continued to train them. His time there taught him that he was able to train without anxiety, he had seen his father's training experience in Wisconsin, and convinced him that he could live the stressful life of a coach while maintaining his integrity and peace of mind. After the 1999 season, he returned to the US to become his father's team manager so they could spend time together.
After his father retired, Bo Ryan defended Bennett on his staff and there he remained until 2003, when his father came out of retirement to train the State of Washington.
Washington State
After a season as assistant coach, Bennett was appointed as his father's successor and promoted to associate head coaches. Two years later, he inherited the position of head coach at Washington State when his father retired in 2006.
Washington State's success will skyrocket beneath the younger Bennett, and his 26 wins in the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons tie a 66-year-old school record set by teams that reached the 1941 NCAA Championship Tournament.
2006-07: School record of 26 wins
Bennett led the 2006-07 Cougars basketball team to a 26-8 record (13-5 Pac-10, second place) and the second round of the NCAA tournament. Cougars won No. 1. 3 and beat Oral Roberts in the opening round before falling to Vanderbilt in double overtime in the second half. The NCAA tournament appearance was the first for Cougars since 1994, breaking a March 13-year March Madness drought for Cougars.
After the 2006-07 season, Bennett was awarded the prestigious Henry Iba Award by choosing the United States Basketball Writers Association, and was crowned AP this year's college basketball coach and Naismith of the Year College Coach. He is also named Trainer of Rivals.com of the Year.
2007-08: 26 Indiana victories and offers
During the 2007-08 season, Bennett finished with a 26-9 (11-7 at Pac-10) record. He also led the Cougars to Sweet Sixteen after defeating Winthrop and Notre Dame in the first and second rounds. After losing to North Carolina at Sweet Sixteen, Bennett's team again achieved a school record to win, with 26.
After the season, Bennett reportedly turned down an offer to become head coach in Indiana, a job that eventually fell into Marquette coach Tom Crean. He also discussed LSU (his wife alma mater) job vacancy in the Final Four that year, a job that was eventually awarded to Stanford coach Trent Johnson. Bennet decided to remain loyal to WSU.
2008-09: Rebuilding and budget limits
Bennett returned to work at Washington State with the need to replace NBA draft pick Kyle Weaver. He brings Klay Thompson, a talented four-star player from California (and the son of former NBA player Mychal Thompson). Thompson grew rapidly on the offensive side of the court as a freshman, but the team fought harder than in the previous two years at the end of the defense and finished 17-16.
Canceled recruitment flights and Final Four trips for staff
Due to the ongoing budget constraints in his athletics department, Washington State lowered charter flights to Bennett and his staff for use in recruiting to remote schools and canceling trips for his staff to Final Four 2009. When this happened, Bennett was contacted about the Virginia job and went to Charlottesville for Interview. Despite being deeply impressed with John Paul Jones Arena and his potential coaching advantage on the ACC, he initially decided to once again remain loyal to WSU. However, when Bennett went to call athletic director Virginia Craig Littlepage and refused the offer, Bennett's wife Laurel stepped in and said "put down the phone," because he could feel a huge uncertainty in his voice when he said he would miss UVA.
Bennett then accepted Virginia's offer on March 29 exactly one year, for the day, after refusing to work in Indiana.
Virginia
Bennett was appointed head coach in Virginia on March 31, 2009. Ritchie McKay, head coach of Flames Liberty, resigned to become Bennett's chief coach. During the rebuilding process, Bennett's team increased their total wins in each successive season. After inheriting the 10-18 squad, Bennett's Virginia won 15, 16, 22, 23, 30, and 30 games in its first six seasons. They also improved their ACC records in each of these years, earning 5-11, 7-9, 9-7, 11-5, and finally repeating ACC-best 16-2 and 16-2. In 2014, Bennett became the first ACC coach to win 16 matches of the conference in a season in the 21st century and the following year became the first coach to win 16 ACC games in two consecutive years. Three years later, the Cavalier was the first ACC team to win 17 matches in a season before winning their second ACC Tournament title over the last five years.
Bennett has found a wide fan base on UVA that is completely "bought" in his first defense and control mentality, and John Paul Jones Arena is now widely regarded as one of the toughest places to play for other ACC teams.
2009-10: Five-win increase
In their first season under Bennett, his new team finished the 15-16 season (5-11 at ACC), a 5 wins (50%) increase over the previous year under its predecessor Bennett (former and current DePaul coach Dave Leitao). Sophomore Sylven Landesberg, a former McDonalds All American recruited by Leitao, led the team in scoring before being suspended for the final game of the season after failing to fulfill its academic obligations. It was soon announced that Landesberg and the program were separated, and he turned pro but excluded.
2010-11: Losses of personnel but increasing
Despite every loss, including one star player (Landesberg) leaving due to academic struggle and another (Mike Scott) down with an injury early in the season and picking up a medical redshirt, the Cavaliers started the season hard by dropping No. 1. 13 Minnesota on the road, in Minneapolis, during the 2010 ACC-Big Ten Challenge. UVA increased to 7-9 in the ACC and has an overall winning record. They are passed for postseason consideration.
2011-12: Most wins in UVA in 17 years
This season started like the last one, with Virginia desperate to take down No. 1. 15 Michigan in 2011 ACC-Big Ten Challenge. In Bennett's third year in Virginia, he led the Cavaliers to 22 wins and the NCAA Tournament berth. It is the most winning program that has been counted in 17 years and the first NCAA Tournament game (losses skewed to Billy Donovan and Florida) in five years. After a rapid development under Bennett over the past three years (which he played only two due to injury), Mike Scott becomes 43st overall by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2012 NBA Draft.
2012-13: Define dominant nucleus
Based on its initial success, Athlon Sports named Bennett one of the four best ACC coaches (along with Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Leonard Hamilton) before this season. The Cavaliers will count one more victory (23) from the previous season, despite losing Mike Scott to the NBA, and making almost any part to take the program higher. Justin Anderson, Malcolm Brogdon, Anthony Gill, Joe Harris, Darion Atkins, Mike Tobey and Akil Mitchell all started or played extensively for the youth team. All they lost was a control point keeper, who found Bennett on the recruitment track at the London Perrantes "diamond in the rough" star of California.
2013-14: # 1 completed ACC and ACC tournament champion
In 2013-14, Perrantes started as a freshman and joined the top players from the previous season as the Cavaliers won their regular sixth season ACC title, earning it with a 75-56 home victory statement against newcomers ACC praised No. 4 Syracuse, the team that started season 25-0. It was also their first regular season title since 1981. Virginia also won the second ACC Tournament title (the first since 1976), beating No. 2 seeds. 7 Duke in the last game, 72-63. The Cavaliers received the third seed (but first since 1983). 1 in the NCAA Tournament and advanced to Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 1995. Bennett is a finalist Coach Naismith of the Year, as well as runner-up for the AP of the Year coach. Bennett signed a new seven-year contract to extend his work with Virginia until 2021. This included a basic paycheck of $ 1,924 million, with the added bonus of longevity and achievement. Part of his contract negotiations includes a long-term contract extension for his staff.
2014-15: # 1 ACC completed and 2 Henry Iba Award
Virginia dropped to an early 19-0, reaching No. AP rank. 2 for the first time since 1983. Much is made in the press that of the top three teams, each still unbeaten throughout December and January (Kentucky, Virginia), and Duke) Cavalier has a zero McDonald All -American, while Wildcats and Blue Devils have nine each. Other highlights include holding Georgia Tech, Rutgers, and Harvard up to below thirty points each and actually "doubling" the Georgia Tech score (57-28) and Wake Forest (70-34); featuring an unprecedented dominance for ACC playing from any program in the last 50 years. The Harvard game is well-known for the score <6> three times shorter, 76-27, and limits Crimson, the NCAA Tournament team, to a field goal in the first half that binds the NCAA record for the era of shooting hours.. Two injuries to Justin Anderson near the end of season dampened NCAA Tournament expectations before he became pro for the NBA Draft 2015. Bennett was awarded the second Henry Iba Award as the nation's top coach, joining ACC partner Roy Williams as the only ever award-winning coach at two schools different. Bennett signed a new contract until 2024.
2015-16: NCAA Elite Eight
UVA started the season with an impressive win against Villanova, West Virginia and California national champions. The number of home-and-away series with programs from other power conferences like this almost never happened before in the ACC. Bennett is recognized for having one of the country's most elite offenses as well as one of the best defenses once again, and ESPN writer Jeff Goodman chose Bennett as the ideal head coach of his mythical "Dream Team" before the season... stating "I'll go with Bennett, who... has had ACC for the past two seasons imagine what he can do with this group of players and talent level.Bennett will make sure these people survive (yes, even you Niang!) and he also has the ideal temperament, even oppressed. "UVA then defeated Iowa State in Niang's last college match at Sweet Sixteen, before Bennett's first defeat (from 3-0) to Syracuse Jim Boeheim in the Elite Eight.
2016-17: 250 career victories
UVA brings a comprehensive recruitment class that includes Bennett, the McDonald's All-American brand and the top 40 recruits, Kyle Guy. The former five-star and Austin Nichols transfers became eligible after sitting out the previous season, but were suspended for two weeks including the opening game of the season for an undisclosed incident and were dismissed entirely because of another incident after playing (and starting) in one game. Nevertheless, UVA broke its record for weeks in a row in the AP Top 25 poll with a streak of 64 weeks of voting covering more than three years, breaking the previous best record of 49 in the 1980s. Bennett recorded his 250th win as head coach against No. 1. 14 Notre Dame, in South Bend, 71-54, while extending his record against Mike Brey to 5-0. The Cavaliers recorded an impressive two-digit win over national championships 5 North Carolina, 53-43, and No. 2. 4 in the rankings of Louisville, 71-55. It completed Bennett's head-to-head competition record against Hall of Famer Rick Pitino on 5-1 before Pitino was dismissed for violation of the NCAA rules out of season.
2017-18: Not budgeted for AP # 1 tournament winner and ACC Tournament
Virginia started as a team to rebuild the threes with 64 consecutive weeks in an off-season AP poll. A Winston-Salem Journal reporter projected the worst season of Bennett's career at 5-13 in the ACC drama. UVA became ranked after winning the NIT Season Tip-Off. They then moved to No. 3 after defeating No. 12 North Carolina, 61-49, to resume a 5-0 home streak against the Heels since 2013. Cavaliers No. 2 overcame No. 4 Duke on the road to Bennett The first win at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Winston-Salem Journal reporter literally "ate his words" about Virginia, swallowing copies of his previous article with barbecue sauce. North Carolina prepares for their Dukes duke game by reviewing the no. 18 Clemson 61-36; point guard Joel Berry II explains, "We want to be like [Virginia] defensively." Virginia reached the first rank of AP No. 1 since 1982. With a 66-37 win at Pitt, UVA won third successive season titles in five years. Cavaliers won the 2018 ACC Tournament by beating North Carolina 71-63. Virginia earned the first overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, only to lose ACC the Sixth Man of the Year De'Andre Hunter to a broken wrist two days before it started. The injury caused the New York Daily News to change their choice of Virginia to win the national championship not to advance from Sweet Sixteen. Virginia then famously lost to UMBC in the opening round, the first time since the tournament was expanded to 64 teams in 1985 that No. 1 seeded. 1 has lost to No. No. 16, in the South that became the first not advanced every of the top four seeds to Sweet Sixteen. Bennett's reaction after the game was featured in the magazine Inc. as a lesson in emotional intelligence and leadership. ACC counterpart Jim Boeheim called Bennett's refusers after losing the end of the season "may be unemployed or idiot" and said if he "can hire a coach in this country and get Tony Bennett, there will not be anyone in second place." To guide a non-member team with low expectations to be the first to win 17 ACC games in a year, then win the ACC Tournament, Bennett won the third Henry Iba Award as the national top coach of the season.
Player development
Bennett, a former NBA player himself, has often developed his players into the All-American and NBA draft picks. Her outstanding reputation for player and personal development is like an opposing coach telling CBS Sports that Bennett "gets a bigger picture that it's more than just a basketball, and his players are growing at a high level and becoming a professional player." Many of his players have played for pro teams in the NBA and in professional leagues around the world. Bennett's recruitment and development methods have been compared with the San Antonio Spurs (hence the NBA's unselfish franchise commitment and successful team under Coach Popovich).
NBA
Malcolm Brogdon, an unnamed college recruitment, named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2017 after five years (with a redshirt injured) beneath Bennett. In total, six Bennett players in Virginia and Washington State have been recruited into the NBA. Of these, none is the 40 top consecutive consensus or McDonald's All-American before playing for Bennett.
- draft NBA 2016 - Malcolm Brogdon, overall selection 36 by Milwaukee Bucks
- NBA draft 2015 - Justin Anderson, 21 overall pick by Dallas Mavericks
- NBA Design 2014 - Joe Harris, overall selection of 33 by the Cleveland Cavaliers
- NBA 2012 show - Mike Scott, the 43th overall election by Atlanta Hawks
- draft NBA 2011 - Klay Thompson, 11 overall pick by Golden State Warriors (*)
- NBA draft 2008 - Kyle Weaver, 38 overall pick by Charlotte Bobcats
(*) Klay Thompson thrives in his first season under Bennett and then two more under Ken Bone.
Bennett players who have not been knitted to play full-time in the NBA include Aron Baynes of the San Antonio Spurs, Detroit Pistons, and Boston Celtics.
Professional
Bennett's players to play in professional basketball leagues around the world include Darion Atkins, Mustapha Farrakhan Jr., Anthony Gill, Sylven Landesberg, Jerome Meyinsse, Laurynas Mikalauskas, Akil Mitchell, Austin Nichols, London Perrantes, Taylor Rochestie, Mike Tobey and Sammy Zeglinski.
Higher Education
Five Virginia Cavaliers have grown under Bennett to win the NCAA All-America or national defender of the award this year.
Tim Pertama All-American
- Malcolm Brogdon, 2016
Tim Kedua All-American
- Malcolm Brogdon, 2015
Tim Ketiga All-American
- Kyle Guy, 2018
- Justin Anderson, 2015
- Mike Scott, 2012
Lefty Driesell Award
- Darion Atkins, 2015
Pemain Bertahan NABC Tahun Ini
- Malcolm Brogdon, 2016
Head coaching record
Bennett has the second highest percentage of victories in UVA history (after Henry Lannigan, hired 104 years earlier as Virginia's first basketball coach) and also the highest percentage of victories in Washington State history. Bennett has so far led the Cavaliers to two ACC Tournaments and three regular season ACC championship seasons.
Against ACC
Bennett has been referred to as the "host" of the ACC by the national media, and has attracted much praise even from its heaviest conference rivals. Rick Pitino from Louisville, who ended a memorable 1-5 career against Bennett, said "there is no such thing as a post play against Virginia"; as well as Buzz Williams of Virginia Tech who called the Bennett system "offensive and defending the elite." The only ACC opposition team Bennett has struggled significantly against in regular seasons are Mike Krzyzewski and Duke, whose Bennett is 1-0 against in post-season (ACC 2014 Tournament Tournament 2014) but 3-9 against the whole. In contrast, Bennett is 113-49 against 13 other ACC programs, including 26-12 against the remaining dominant Tobacco Road and 27-11 in official ACC versus Louisville, Maryland * and Virginia Tech rivals.
* Maryland is no longer in ACC after the 2013-14 season. The record includes the ACC-Big Ten Challenge game after that year for former ACC rivals.
Train a tree
Former assistant coach Bennett has been head coach at the college level.
- Ritchie McKay: Liberty (2015-present)
- Ron Sanchez: Charlotte (2018-present)
Family and personal life
The most famous family member of the gifted coaching family, he is the son of former Wisconsin Badgers, Green Bay, and Washington State coach Dick Bennett, and brother of former Indiana Hoosiers and Northern Illinois head coach Kathi Bennett. The "pack-line" defense that made the younger Bennett has perfected in Virginia was first implemented in an earlier form by older Bennett until Tony took over the head coaching job of his father in Washington State.
Bennett is married and has two children, one son and one daughter. Bennett met his wife, Laurel (nÃÆ' Â © e Purcell) at a church near North Carolina, when she played for the Charlotte Hornets. He is a Christian and is likely to become a priest if not a college basketball coach. He has spoken of his faith and said, "When you have a relationship with God, there is peace and perspective that you have, the world does not give it, and the world can not take it." Bennett has also quoted his faith as the impact of his training philosophy, especially the use of his father "Five Pillars": humility, zeal, unity, servanthood, and gratitude.
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External links
- Virginia profile
- Tony Bennett on Basketball-Reference.com
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